{"id":207616,"date":"2024-02-23T22:39:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T22:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/new-report-ranks-cities-by-ease-of-doing-business\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:21:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:21:40","slug":"new-report-ranks-cities-by-ease-of-doing-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/23\/new-report-ranks-cities-by-ease-of-doing-business\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Ranks Cities By Ease Of Doing Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Center for the Study of Economic Liberty at Arizona State University has just released the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/DoingBusinessNorthAmerica.org\">Doing Business North America<\/a><\/em> report, a first-of-its kind report that provides objective measures of business regulations across 115 cities in 92 states, provinces and districts in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The report uses these measures to score and rank cities in regard to how easy or difficult it is to set up, operate and shut down a business.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60350\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60350\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"wp-image-60350 perfmatters-lazy\" alt=\"business regulations North America\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" src=\"https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NorthAmericanFlags-571x300.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NorthAmericanFlags-571x300.jpg 571w, https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NorthAmericanFlags-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NorthAmericanFlags-696x365.jpg 696w, https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NorthAmericanFlags.jpg 800w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"\/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"wp-image-60350\" src=\"https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NorthAmericanFlags-571x300.jpg\" alt=\"business regulations North America\" width=\"400\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NorthAmericanFlags-571x300.jpg 571w, https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NorthAmericanFlags-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NorthAmericanFlags-696x365.jpg 696w, https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/NorthAmericanFlags.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60350\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\">Modeled upon the World Bank\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.doingbusiness.org\/\">Doing Business<\/a><\/em> report, the <em>Doing Business North America<\/em> report measures the regulations that apply to domestic small- and medium-sized companies throughout their lifecycle. The report complies and analyses city-specific data, offering a comprehensive look at a particular jurisdiction\u2019s business environment, including regulations having to do with starting a business, employing workers, acquiring electricity, paying taxes, registering property and resolving insolvency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By comparing business environments across North America, the report offers measurable benchmarks for reform that encourage states and provinces to pursue regulatory frameworks that ease the cost of doing business.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe <em>Doing Business North America<\/em> report offers local jurisdictions objective data on how policies, regulations and licensing requirements affect businesses in their community,\u201d said Steve Slivinski, senior research fellow and project director of the <em>Doing Business North America<\/em> report at the Center for the Study of Economic Liberty. \u201cThis is a powerful tool that can be used by public officials to inform and guide policy,\u201d said Slivinski. \u201cWe expect that many jurisdictions will be interested in how they rank compared to their neighbors or peers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The <em>Doing Business North America<\/em> research team was led by Slivinski, with support from undergraduate students from the W. P. Carey School of Business, The College, School of Sustainability, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, and School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership. Additional support was provided by Caminos de la Libertad, an educational foundation based in Mexico City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201c<em>Doing Business North America<\/em> is predicated on the idea that a well-functioning economy requires good rules,\u201d said Ross Emmett, director, Center for the Study of Economic Liberty. \u201cThe ease of doing business in a location is higher when the rules are clear and the steps involved are few. A study like this is useful for policy research in both the academic and the policy-maker communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The report findings include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/2019\/07\/pratt-whitney-creating-100-jobs-in-oklahoma-expansion\/\">Oklahoma City<\/a> accumulated the highest Ease of Doing Business Score.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">The Canadian cities of Winnipeg, Halifax, and <a href=\"https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/2019\/02\/honorable-mentions-2018-economic-development-deal-year\/\">Moncton<\/a> lead the \u201cStarting a Business\u201d category, which measures the number of legal procedures required to start a business and the costs associated with those procedures.<\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\">In the category of \u201cEmploying Workers,\u201d which includes mandates like minimum wages and required paid leave, <a href=\"https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/2019\/02\/virginia-business-facilities-2018-state-year\/\">Arlington, VA<\/a> takes the top spot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhat makes this project so exciting is that it clears the way for immediate action and outcomes in our communities,\u201d said Amy Hillman, dean, W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. \u201cSmall and medium-sized firms account for the majority of businesses in the United States; their success is critical to our economy. This report equips local governments with data that shows how they are either helping or hindering those businesses, from a regulatory perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The<em> Doing Business North America<\/em> report is <a href=\"http:\/\/DoingBusinessNorthAmerica.org\">available to the public here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/businessfacilities.com\/new-report-ranks-cities-by-ease-of-doing-business\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Center for the Study of Economic Liberty at Arizona State University has just released the Doing Business North America report, a first-of-its kind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342657,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207616\/revisions\/342657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}